Defragmenting an SSD?

[smakme7757]

A quick question,

Should i defragment my SSD? or is deframenting on useful for mechanical HDD's?

Thanks

 

[Continuity28]

Defragmenting a Solid State Drive will only decrease the drive's lifespan while offering no benefits.

A flash memory cell is not very fast on it's own, that's why data is automatically fragmented and distributed amongst many flash memory cells so that the data can be read back and reassembled in tandem. To actually defragment that data (which isn't really possible anyways because the controller wouldn't allow it) would actually impair the speed, never improve it.

So, in the end, all defragmenting will do is rearrange the data fragments, yielding no performance advantage, and simply use up some of the flash memory's write cycles. Don't do it.

 

[smakme7757]

Defragmenting a Solid State Drive will only decrease the drive's lifespan while offering no benefits.

A flash memory cell is not very fast on it's own, that's why data is automatically fragmented and distributed amongst many flash memory cells so that the data can be read back and reassembled in tandem. To actually defragment that data (which isn't really possible anyways because the controller wouldn't allow it) would actually impair the speed, never improve it.

So, in the end, all defragmenting will do is rearrange the data fragments, yielding no performance advantage, and simply use up some of the flash memory's write cycles. Don't do it.

I appreciate the reply. Thank you!

 

[Zap]

You could have just read the sticky!

 

[Emulex]

depends on how many fragments. if you have one file with 600K fragments it might be faster to deal with than 1 fragment.

I do a defrag once a year by cloning the ssd to a new one in file by file mode (naturally it defrags it). when resizing a partition it has to do this anyways.